> My hard drive, hdc (it's a Dell, don't ask) has a vfat parition, hdc3. > I recently reinstalled my linux, and it doesn't detect it. > I tried adding a line to my fstab that looked some thing like: > /dev/hdc3 /share vfat defaults,users,noauto,rw 0 0. I can then mount > the partition as root, until I reboot. Then the line magically > disappears. That magic is one of Redhat's enchancements. Like listing the hostname in 3 differenct places. You may have to use the Disk Drive Tool that RH/Fedora to mount and update the fstab(s) file. Just for grins after you've done this cd /etc and run something like grep -r "hdc3" and see how many file it's listed in? David